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There are numerous health benefits to mindfulness and meditation. Here's how you can achieve zen in less than 10 minutes.<p>The glowing trend of achieving mindfulness through technology and mobile apps couldn't have come at a better time. With National Relaxation Day coming this weekend (Saturday, …

Four things that could go wrong, and how you can protect your portfolio<p>By<p>Gregory Zuckerman<p>Gregory Zuckerman<p>The Wall Street Journal<p>Biography<p>@GZuckerman<p>Gregory.Zuckerman@wsj.com<p>Get ready for the next crisis.<p>Six years into a bull market for stocks and bonds, there is no shortage of reasons to prepare …

How a podcast host and a former NFL player, among others, created a market for pills that claim to boost brain function.<p>I'm sitting with a man named Gordon Cady and getting ready to swallow 700 milligrams of polyrhachis ants.<p>"They can lift 60 times their body weight, drag 100 times their body …

From Bertrand Russell to the Buddha, or why you should spend a weekend reading the Qur’an.<p>On an excellent recent episode of <i>The Tim Ferriss Show</i> — one of these nine podcasts for a fuller life — neuroscientist <b>Sam Harris</b> answered a listener’s question inquiring what books everyone should read. As a …

Dwight Eisenhower lived one of the most productive lives you can imagine.<p>Eisenhower was the 34th president of the United States, serving two terms from 1953 to 1961. During his time in office, he launched programs that directly led to the development of the Interstate Highway System in the United …

<i>Photo by newsbusters.org</i><p>This past year I had the privilege of meeting Frank Schaeffer through our mutual friend, Peter Rollins. Frank quickly turned into a person I truly admire. He was the son of Francis Schaeffer, the Presbyterian pastor and cultural theorist that helped galvanized the Christian …

There is no worse feeling than when you see someone wasting her talent. With what she owns she could change her entire life but instead of doing that, she just surrounds herself with fears, always choosing the safe way to go. But the question is whether she is able to mute her thoughts and …

What has it got in its academic journals, precious?<p>Though at first glance, science and fantasy seem to be polar opposites, the Venn diagram circles of “scientists” and “<i>Lord of the Rings</i> fans” have a large overlap. One could (lovingly!) label that region “nerds.”<p>Fight me on that if you want, but …

On a warm March afternoon, farmer Cannon Michael walks alongside wheat fields adjacent to his house in Los Banos, in California’s Central Valley. Most of these fields won’t be watered again this year.<p>“Wheat’s not a glamorous crop, but it makes a lot of bread,” Michael quips.<p>This wheat, though, …

Some scientists claim that new discoveries have proved free will is an illusion. Nonsense, says Julian Baggini<p>Whenever you read stories about identical twins separated at birth, they tend to follow the template set by the most remarkable of them all: the “two Jims”. James Springer and James Lewis …

While her children ran around her, Ruth Cardello wrote in the basement of her tiny house in spare moments, worked on improving her craft, and juggled her day job as a kindergarten teacher.<p>Then, when the economic slowdown began, and her teaching career became less stable, she took a leap of faith. …